I HATE slack… otoh, the discord interface is not great for official business unless you’re in tech
Good luck
1 Like
I confess that I have been irritable this whole day because last week I chose for my college textbooks to be shipped to me instead of me picking them up at the college book store.
They still haven’t arrived yet and I’m going back to college this Saturday. They’ll probably get here after I move back into my college apartment. I did the same exact thing last semester and expected a different outcome…
1 Like
I confess that it’s the same dumb driveway I’ve been shoveling for 9 years, but clearing it today was perhaps harder than it’s ever been.
I confess that I feel like in so doing, I have earned a reward.
I confess that I will not be driving to the donut shop now that the driveway is clear.
I confess that I am too good at lying to myself about food as a means to get through hard work.
5 Likes
yep. same here
I confess that I am also good at lying to myself like this and I try to remind myself that:
-
This is a relationship I want to break with food. As plenty of others have said, I’m not a performing animal.
-
I managed to get fat running Mass Made Simple and fasting twice a week. I can’t outtrain a bad diet. Some may be able to, I can’t.
It’s worth appreciating that getting fat in the span of 6 weeks is itself quite an accomplishment. That was some SERIOUS eating you were doing my dude!
1 Like
I went sledding for the first time today.
Confession: it was damn hard going up ad down the hill. I will proceed to use this as an excuse to skip conditioning 
2 Likes
Yeah!
That is awesome!
It is!
It’s hard to even imagine now, the countless hours we used to spend running up the biggest hills we could find, cutting a good path, and flying back down.
2 Likes
There’s an element of hyperbole there to make a point to myself. But over the course of 7 weeks I added slightly over 20lbs from memory, from low 180s to within touching distance of 210. I wish I had the sense to do before and after pictures now. Maybe if @Bagsy persuades me to do another run through.
2 Likes
Credit where credit is due dude. I managed 12lbs in 6 weeks drinking a gallon of milk a day on Super Squats. I spend a lot of time on a subreddit for dudes who struggle to put on weight: seeing that kind of eating is just awesome to me.
1 Like
I confess this is the most insane display of bicep strength I have ever seen:
(they’re only half-reps though, so it doesn’t count…kidding -that’s full range of motion for an armwrestler)
1 Like
I confess that, today was the first time all week taking my dogs for a walk or doing some basic mobility work didn’t feel like an exhaustive effort. Having Covid is lame. Feeling better today and my fiancee let me know that I did not look like a lost old man wandering through the woods today. I’m back baby.
3 Likes
I was on the train a while ago and a young fella (like my age maybe or a little younger) approached me with his girlfriend. He informed he had reserved the seats I was sitting on and politely enough asked me to find some place else to sit. The only thing that really bothered me was that he had his face mask dangling around at chin level.
So I answered in a very friendly, cheery tone “sure thing! As long as you pull up your mask”. Now depending where you stand on masks (I don’t care one bit) that might seem very offensive/ provocative to you. Because it was.
Anyway here’s the funny part: You could literally see the gears in his head turning while blood rushed to his face giving him an almost purple color. It was clear that he didn’t want to show weakness in front of his girlfriend (at least that’s what I figured). Right when I was sure he was going to chose confrontation, I stood up tall out of the seat. Now he wasn’t scrawny but when he realized how much of a size difference we had, he just mumbled something incomprehensible and pulled the mask all the way up over his nose. I thanked him very cheerfully and gave them their rightful seats.
Call me an arsehole for it but I very much enjoyed that exchange and got a good laugh out of it.
And for those who do perceive me as an arsehole: No, I would not have let this escalate into violence and I don’t get regular joy out of intimidating people.
15 Likes
Been making a peanutbutter, chocolate, banana shake a few times a week for dinner lately and never measured the portions, just threw in stuff until it got the right consistency.
Turns out this monster is a minimum of 2600 calories. Think I found the source of those stubborn last 5lbs I can’t lose.
6 Likes
Dear god man, what were you putting in this? I’m completely genuinely impressed by this shake lol. 2500 calories is almost hard to do, how much were you drinking? Talk about fueling your training haha
1 Like
I’m with @atlas13! Wth is in there!? I used to make shakes with those same ingredients and whole milk and it was only like 1200
@loganator “My peanut butter sandwiches are clocking in at 20k calories”
The Forum “How?!”
@loganator 's sandwich
1 Like
My shake is with pb powder.
Used to throw in real peanutbutter with the powder, probably closer to 5k then but wanted to make it “healthy.”
The inner glutton always forgets that portion control is a part of that.
1 Like
what is the stuff under the bacon in the sandwich pic
4 bananas
2 cups oatmeal
2 ounces 100% cacao chocolate
1 cup pb powder
- few hundred calories in seeds
It’s about 48oz of liquid in the blender when it’s done
1 Like